Militia

Who is the Militia

Amendment II

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

"The Second Amendment has most recently been interpreted to grant the right of gun ownership to individuals for purposes that include self-defense. At first it was thought to apply only to the Federal government, but through the mechanism of the Fourteenth Amendment, it has been applied to the states as well." https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/second_amendment

So what this is saying is that without the Fourteenth Amendment the second amendment has nothing to do with the average American who was not a party to the Constitution.

• "MILI'TIA, noun [Latin from miles, a soldier; Gr. war, to fight, combat, contention. The primary sense of fighting is to strive, struggle, drive, or to strike, to beat, Eng. moil, Latin molior; Heb. to labor or toil.] The body of soldiers in a state enrolled for discipline, but not engaged in actual service except in emergencies; as distinguished from regular troops, whose sole occupation is war or military service. The militia of a country are the able bodied men organized into companies, regiments and brigades, with officers of all grades, and required by law to attend military exercises on certain days only, but at other times left to pursue their usual occupations." Webster's Dictionary 1828 - Online Edition

1. regulated - controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law; "well regulated industries"; "houses with regulated temperature"

Antonyms: unregulated - not regulated; not subject to rule or discipline; "unregulated off-shore fishing"

2. regulated - marked by system or regularity or discipline; "a quiet ordered house"; "an orderly universe"; "a well regulated life"

Synonyms: ordered, orderly. Word Net Dictionary

The U.S. Code

Title 10 U.S. Code Chapter 13 - THE MILITIA § 311 - Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.

(b) The classes of the militia are—

(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and

2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

Title 10 U.S. Code § 312 - Militia duty: exemptions

(a) The following persons are exempt from militia duty:

(1) The Vice President.

(2) The judicial and executive officers of the United States, the several States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.

(3) Members of the armed forces, except members who are not on active duty.

(4) Customhouse clerks.

(5) Persons employed by the United States in the transmission of mail.

(6) Workmen employed in armories, arsenals, and naval shipyards of the United States.

(7) Pilots on navigable waters.

(8) Mariners in the sea service of a citizen of, or a merchant in, the United States.

(b) A person who claims exemption because of religious belief is exempt from militia duty in a combatant capacity, if the conscientious holding of that belief is established under such regulations as the President may prescribe. However, such a person is not exempt from militia duty that the President determines to be noncombatant.

Conscription

• "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963

The original idea of a militia does not include "conscription" but was merely the able body men of society who are willing to fight and work in its defense.

There has always been an element that want to argue conscription for what has been called a militia for thousands of years. Authoritarian habits are hard to break. But if the government can compel your service then you are not "free" but under tribute. In a true or pure Republic leaders are titular and have no power of conscription. It is true that during the American Revolutionary War, "some states", which were individual republics to lesser or greater degree, "sometimes drafted men for militia duty or to fill state Continental Army units", but the central government that was still forming did not have the authority to conscript except for purposes of naval impressment. Even that was controversial since the power of impressment was one of the complaints in The Declaration of Independence.

We should also note that "landed" men, that is to say those with a freehold title in land could not be impressed because by definition they were "freemen". Even President James Madison and his Secretary of War James Monroe unsuccessfully attempted to create a national draft of 40,000 men during the War of 1812. This proposal was fiercely criticized on the House floor Congressman Daniel Webster.

It should also be noted that even when there was limited draft powers the power over a drafted soldier was extremely limited. Washington commented that the militia "provided for calling out men to repel invasion; but the powers granted for effecting it were so limited, as to be almost inoperative."

President James Madison advocated the controversial idea of government funding of Public Education but only for the absolute indigent of society. The reason people objected to government funding of education was that it was literally drafting the labor of people to provide benefits to the needy of society.

• "He who receives the benefit should also bear the disadvantage."

Cujus est commodum ejus debet esse incommodum.

Because some states participated in some form of draft does not make it correct or grant universal power to draft people or their sons and daughters. That is an acquired power. If you have "conscripted fathers" making laws in your government then you are likely subject to a draft.

I am not saying that the government does not have power to draft today. But I am saying that it is not automatic nor universal. It is what the people have been doing and not doing that grants the corporate governments of the world the power to draft the people in military or civilian work projects. [see passports.] The idea that the government should not be given the power to draft is a biblical rule laid down since at least Deuteronomy.

The militia does not include members of the "armed forces" who re automatically exempt from the militia according to Title 10 U.S. Code § 312. In a government of,for and by the people the militia can be an all voluntary force that organizes itself. People in a community are expected to defend that community even if they are not members. It is like good Samaritan laws. If someone is being attacked, murdered or robbed and you do not defend their right with means at your disposal you become complicit in the commission of the crime. A well organized militia is simply people who are organized in their effort to protect and defend their neighbor's rights like Jesus said about attending to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.

The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.

The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.

The modern Christians are in need of repentance.

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